by Natalia Boesch | Jul 10, 2018 | Career, Profiles, Reverence
How was training at the Cuban National Ballet School different from what you see in the U.S.? It was free education, so it was very hard to get in, and there was a cut every year. We had academics alongside art, and we had to take a lot of different things: modern,...
by Hannah Chang Foster | Jun 5, 2018 | Career, Dancer Spotlight, Profiles
Dancer designers seem to be a dime a dozen these days. With three already in Pacific Northwest Ballet’s ranks (principals Elizabeth Murphy and duo Lindsi Dec and Karel Cruz), it might seem like an over- saturated market for another dancewear brand to be able to...
by Marissa DeSantis | Nov 23, 2017 | Profiles
Dancewear and leotards designed by ballerinas is nothing new. But Dusty Button isn’t your average ballerina. The former Boston Ballet principal has made her own rules in the dance world, keeping an Instagram following of over 200,000 mesmerized with a mix of...
by Claudia Bauer | Nov 20, 2014 | Career, Profiles
This story originally appeared in the December 2014/January 2015 issue of Pointe. Looking around Susan Roemer’s San Francisco apartment, you’d never know she’s a ballerina. There are no performance mementos on the walls, no basket of unsewn pointe...